We said it last time and we will say it again. It is hot and half of you are holidaying with friends and family. Yours truly churns a final weekly overview, before heading towards TYPOfree time. In this issue community contributions were coming in from the internetz. Last weekend saw two sprints, T3O has BIG plans and the T3A wants your budget application!

The budgetary process 2015 officially starts on August 1st, 2014.

The TYPO3 Marketing Team will visit Bayern on August 20th.

After a long preparation phase, discussions and refinement, we ask the whole TYPO3 Community to vote on the new concept for the release cycles for our TYPO3 CMS product in future.

June and July have been interesting and intensive months for the Association. What have we done?

It is a hot summer for the TYPO3 Marketing Team and for the TYPO3 Agencies.

The temperatures are soaring and the holidays have started for some and will start for others soon. Development wise not to much happened, but we do have a section on flexible content elements, a walkthrough tool and some more snippets here and there that will get your attention.

The TYPO3 Association offers a preparation workshop to provide future integrators with all the information and materials they need to pass the “Certified TYPO3 Integrator” exam successfully. After a successful kick-off workshop at the Developer Days we are now going to offer it at the TYPO3Camp Bremen as well.

The Neos/Flow team met for another code sprint at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) in the Netherlands leading up to the developer days. Three days were spent focussing on improving our tools, communication, discussing organizational matters, working on upcoming features and ended with finalizing the release of 1.1. The code sprint was medium sized with 13 participants in total.